School of Arts and Sciences

• Set Design, Boston Public Library, 9/2024

• Mind Like Water, Musical Composition, New Focus Recordings (01/19/2024)

• Muriel's Songs, Musical Composition (premiered by Sound Icon, with Blythe Gaissert as the mezzo-soprano soloist at the Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, 03/16/2024)

• Ground, Solo Gallery Show, (A.D. Gallery, New York City, NY, 02/2024 - 03/2024)

• 'Henry' in Trouble in Mind, by Alice Childress Theater Performance, directed by Dawn M. Simmons (Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Boston, MA, 01/12/2024-02/04/2024)

• Inventive Brush: Calligraphic Echoes from China, Japan and Korea, Art Exhibition Curator, Pao Arts Center, Boston (July-October 2024).

Recipient of 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award for Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry

The 2024 Prize Americana Recipient for A Moment's Surrender: On love and murder in academia.

• 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship

Received funding from Israel Institute for "Israeli Civil Society: Diversity, Democracy, and Justice," 2024

NOMIS Foundation award recipient, Petrarch in Global Translation

National Science Foundation 2024 CAREER Award

Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship, Higher-order statistics of geostrophic turbulence and internal waves

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Spring 2024

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants

"The National Institutes of Health is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. In fiscal year 2022, NIH invested most of its $45 billion appropriations in research seeking to enhance life, and to reduce illness and disability. NIH-funded research has led to breakthroughs and new treatments helping people live longer, healthier lives, and building the research foundation that drives discovery." — NIH Website

• Anne Berry (Psychology), Aging, Activity Diversity, and Brain Health
• Leslie Griffith (Biology), Regulation of Intrinsic Plasticity in Neural Circuits
• James Haber (Biology), DNA Damage Response and Repair of Broken Chromosome
• Lizbeth Hedstrom (Biology and Chemistry) and Isaac Krauss (Chemistry), Ubiquitin-Independent Targeted Protein Degradation (Transformative Research)
• Sebastian Kadener (Biology), Uncovering the Origin and Mechanisms of Ultradian Rhythms in the Drosophila Brain; Systematic and Mechanistic Assessment of the Roles of circRNAs in Alzheimer's Disease and Unraveling Regulatory Functions of circRNAs at the Muscleblind Locus
• Julia Kardon (Biochemistry), Dynamic Control of Mitochondrial Function by the Protein unfoldase CLPX
• Donald Katz (Psychology), Hippocampal-Gustatory Cortical Interactions Underlying Formation of Taste-space Cognitive Maps (with Shantanu Jadhav) and Temporal Coding and Palatability in Gustatory Cortex
• Isaac Krauss (Chemistry), A 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer and Mannosidase-Stabilized Glycan Immunogens for Elicitation of High Mannose Patch Antibodies and for Technologies for Directed Evolution of Glycoaptamers
• Michael Marr (Biology), Undergraduate and Graduate Training in Computational Neuroscience and Data Analysis
• Paul Miller (Biology), Undergraduate and Graduate Training in Computational Neuroscience and Data Analysis
• Michael Rosbash (Biology and Neuroscience), Addressing Protein Synthesis Regulation within Small Numbers of Discrete Neurons
• Maria-Eirini Pandelia (Biochemistry), How Does a Metallocofactor In The Hepatitis B Viral Protein X Orchestrate Pathogenesis and Liver Cancer
• Avital Rodal (Biology), Abberior 3D-STED Microscope for Super-Resolution Imaging
• Piali Sengupta (Biology), Mechanisms of Sensory Neuron Morphological Diversification, Signaling, and Functional Plasticity
• Douglas Theobald (Biochemistry), Evolution of Enzyme Structure and Function Viewed at Atomic Resolution 
• Jonathan Touboul (Mathematics), Collaborative Research: DMS/NIGMS 2: Dynamical Maintenance of Left-right Symmetry During Vertebrate Development
• Gina Turrigiano (Biology), Mechanisms and Function of Firing Rate Homeostasis in Cortical Circuits
• Yangyang Wang (Mathematics), CRCNS: Evidence-based Modeling of Neuromodulatory Action on Network Properties

National Science Foundation (NSF)

"The U.S. National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories...We also support solutions-oriented research with the potential to produce advancements for the American people." — NSF Website

• Angela Gutchess (Psychology), Defining Culture in Scientific Inquiry: Interdisciplinary and International Perspective
• Michael Hagan (Physics), Computational modeling to determine strategies to optimize self-limited assembly and Collaborative Research: DMREF: Synthetic Machines from Feedback-controlled Active Matter
• Pengyu Hong (Computer Science), Collaborative Research: Cultivating Tomorrow's Innovators Through Exploring Planetary Images with Artificial Intelligence
• Tyler Maunu (Mathematics), Wasserstein Optimization in Data Science: Recovery and Sampling

U.S. Department of Energy

Aram Apyan (Physics), Co-Investigator Gabriella Sciolla, Experimental Particle Physics Research at Brandeis University

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

AIIS Long-Term Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, 2024

American Council on Learned Societies Fellowship for America’s Comfort Women: Legacies of Military Prostitution in Cold War Asia and the Pacific

2024 Wenner Gren Hunt Fellowship

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer fellowship. He will use the award in the summer of 25-26 for his next project, "Capturing Race: Screening (Anti)Blackness in India." The NEH summer stipend competition is highly competitive, with only 13% of applications funded this cycle.

2024 Constance M. Rourke Prize for Best Article, “The Black Living Room” (September 2022)

2024 Biomedical Fellow, Logan Science Journalism Program at the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory. Now in its 37th year, the fellowship program brings together a dozen science and health journalists from around the world to Woods Hole, Mass., where they get immersive, hands-on training in cutting-edge biomedical and environmental science. Swidey will work with senior scientists to do genome editing using CRISPR/Cas 9 and DNA sequencing and analysis. 

2024 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History for American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.